Just because McCain didn't get to mention Ayers last night doesn't mean of course that the subject is dropped. See this for example. Look, I hate the Weathermen too, but really, Obama was nine years old when this happened.

Meanwhile, Michael Scherer at Time revealed today that McCain himself is a terrorist-symp by his own admission:

This morning John McCain put out a list of 100 former ambassadors who are supporting his campaign. Number two is Leonore Annenberg, the wife of Ambassador William Annenberg, the founder of the Annenberg Institute of Reform, which funded the Annenberg Challenge, which once had two famous board members: former "domestic terrorist" William Ayers and Sen. Barack Obama.

So either we should all be outraged that John McCain is supported by a family who funded a foundation that hired a domestic terrorist, or this whole William Ayers thing is just plain silly. I choose the latter.

The Annenbergs, if you don't know, are a famous American publishing family, very Republican going back generations. They got their start in newspapers in the days when big cities had a dozen or 15 competing dailies and papers literally hired thugs to rough up and occasionally kill corner newsboys so as to claim space on more profitable street corners.

Anyway, JM and Embarracuda are obviously going to keep after this. Even Republicans in my reading tend to think it won't "alter the dynamic," as they say, but we'll need four or so days to see that for sure.